Ice-creeper attachment for horseshoes.



No. 645,869. Patented Mar.- 20, I900. J. MyMYERS. |CE CREEPER ATTACHMENT FOR HORSESHOES.

(Application filed July 26, 1899.)

(No Model.)

JOHN M. MYERS,

QM \s "l www- UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN M. MYERS, OF LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY.

lCE-CR EEP ER ATTACHME NT FOR HORSESHOES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 645,869, dated March 20, 1900.

Application filed July 26,1899. Serial No. 725,205. on model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN M. MYERS, a citizen of the United'States, I'esiding at Louisville, in the county of Jefferson and State of Kentucky, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Ice-Creeper Attach-i removed from shoes of different sizes and yet be firmly secured in place. Iattain these .ob-

jects by the mechanism shown in the accom panying drawings, in which- Figure. 1 represents a bottom or inverted plan View of the shoe and its attachments;

Fig. 2, a top plan view of the shoe and the interlocking clips which secure the creeperto the shoe; and Fig. 3, a verticalcross-section through the shoe, creeper, and fastening.

The shoe A is made in the ordinary way,

except that it is provided with shallow radial or lateral grooves a in its upper side. A similar groove a maybe provided in the front of the shoe, if desired; but ordinarily the lateral grooves will be found amply sufficient to hold the creeper securely to the shoe.

The creeper is shown as composed of arim B, of metal, preferably of cast-steel, having a comparatively-sharp lower edge, its upper edge being secured to or formed on a plate or ring B, corresponding in shape with the shoe. The rim and ring or plate are of such shape as not to interfere with the calks or heels of the shoe. The drawings show in full lines the rim B as forming part of a fiat plate B, provided with lateral slots 1), through which oneor more bolts 0 pass. Clips E are secured to the ring or plate by these bolts oand their nuts 0. 'The projecting'outer ends of these clips enter the grooves a in the shoe, and thus clamp the shoe and creeper securely'together.

The dotted lines in Fig. 1 show the shape preferably given to the ring when substituted for the plate above described. In this modiand shoe A, so thatthe shocks of use come directly upon the shoe, and the clips are relieved from the strain incident to such shocks, being required-merely creeper together.

What I'claim herein as new and as of my own invention is- The combination, substantially as hereinbefore set forth,of a horseshoe, having grooves Witnesses:

W. D. BALDWIN, WALTER R. TABBSJ to hold the shoe and 

